National University Hospital (Damascus)

National University Hospital (Arabic: المستشفى الوطني الجامعي) in Damascus is one of the largest teaching hospitals in Syria. It was founded in 1988 and is run by the Ministry of Higher Education. The hospital is affiliated with Damascus University.^[1][2][3]

National University Hospital
Syrian Ministry of Higher Education
The University Hospital in 2025
Geography
Location	Damascus, Damascus Governorate, Syria
Coordinates	33.505716°N 36.269635°E / 33.505716; 36.269635
Organisation
Funding	Public hospital
Type	Teaching
Affiliated university	Damascus University
Services
Beds	645
Speciality	Multispecialty
History
Opened	1988
Links
Website	www.nuhd.edu.sy
Lists	Hospitals in Syria

Following the Fall of Assad regime in December 2024. The hospital's name was changed from al-Assad University Hospital to National University Hospital. The current director of the National University Hospital is Dr. Abdel Ghani Al-Shalabi, who assumed the position on December 24, 2024. Dr. Al-Shalabi is a specialist in general and laparoscopic surgery, having trained in France, and serves as a professor of general and laparoscopic surgery at the Faculty of Medicine of the Damascus University.^[4]

Facilities

The hospital has facilities for MRI and CT scan, a gamma camera and lithotripsy device. The operations ward contains 11 operation rooms suitable for laparoscopic and open heart surgery as well as computerized neurosurgery. Analyses performed by the hospital lab include hormonal, immune, tumor, pharmaceutical, and lymphatic tests/ It has a stem cell bank. The hospital provides medical, therapeutic and surgical services to patients. It is used to train students and graduate doctors from Syrian universities and contributes to scientific research. Hospital activities include internal specialties, including cardiac, neurological, gastrointestinal and kidney. It also performs general, endoscopic, vascular and cardiac surgery, neurosurgery and urosurgery. It has a kidney transplant unit and a physiotherapy unit.^{[citation needed]}

The hospital contains 645 beds, 36 of which are for intensive care, and has a special emergency ward for internal diseases.^[5] The faculty of medicine at Damascus and the National University Hospital carry out research into oncology, which increased during the Syrian crisis.^[6]

Following the fall of the Assad regime, the Ministry of Health renamed Al-Assad University Hospital to National University Hospital on 24 December 2024.^[7]

See also

• Faculty of Medicine of Damascus University